2014 Index of Winners
Best band that can't find enough hours in the day BOA Award Winner
Small Reactions'
SMALL REACTIONS’ normal routine would be enough to give most dedicated musicians their fill of local scene participation. The group plays around town enough and reached a creative high with this summer’s Hung From Wire EP. Songs such as “Shark Week” and the title track roll with spontaneity,more...
SMALL REACTIONS’ normal routine would be enough to give most dedicated musicians their fill of local scene participation. The group plays around town enough and reached a creative high with this summer’s Hung From Wire EP. Songs such as “Shark Week” and the title track roll with spontaneity, heart-pounding grooves, and lyrics that ruminate on everything from sleepless nights to silverfish creeping around the bedroom. While prepping for the October release of Small Reactions’ proper debut, Similar Phantoms, the group’s members have pulled double-duty backing indie pop singer, songwriter, and guitarist Jeremy Underwood, aka Gold-Bears. Holding down Dalliances, Gold-Bears’ greatest album so far, while strengthening its own foundation, solidifies Small Reactions’ place as the most active band to emerge from Atlanta’s post-punk scene of 2014. www.smallreactions.bandcamp.com.
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Best band to blow the roof off of the joint BOA Award Winner
The Wolfpack
When determining how badass a band truly is, its live show can’t just be good. The sheer physicality of its performance must force patrons to shut up and listen. No Atlanta band pulls off this feat with as much originality and force as THE WOLFPACK. Helmed by Grammy-winning saxophonist Kebbi Williams,more...
When determining how badass a band truly is, its live show can’t just be good. The sheer physicality of its performance must force patrons to shut up and listen. No Atlanta band pulls off this feat with as much originality and force as THE WOLFPACK. Helmed by Grammy-winning saxophonist Kebbi Williams, the Wolfpack is a backing band composed of sousaphone players that fuse musical prowess with a seamless ability to switch genres. The group has performed Star Wars’ “Emperor’s Theme” and rearranged Flying Lotus tunes. The portability of sousaphones, also known as marching tubas, allows the pack to roam around the crowd and blare its bass-heavy lines from every corner. www.facebook.com/wolfpackatl14.
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Best bartender BOA Award Winner
Crystal Nickles at Sweetwater Bar and Grill
Best bowling alley BOA Award Winner
Best cocktail bar BOA Award Winner
Best college bar BOA Award Winner
DiveBar Buckhead
Best country music club BOA Award Winner
Best gay bar BOA Award Winner
Best hip-hop event host BOA Award Winner
David "Fort Knox" Freeman
Best local folk act BOA Award Winner
Lily and the Tigers AND Little Tybee AND Levi Lowrey AND Neil Cribbs
Lily and the Tigers
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Little Tybee
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Levi Lowrey
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Neil Cribbs
Best nightlife district BOA Award Winner
Edgewood Avenue
Best places to wet your whistle: Drag dinner theater BOA Award Winner
Best places to wet your whistle: Hotel bar BOA Award Winner
Best place to hear music for free BOA Award Winner
Best trip-hop, Krautrock, psych-pop underdog BOA Award Winner
Where.Are.We
Best free thing to do in Atlanta BOA Award Winner
Best gatherings of the masses: Free event BOA Award Winner
Atlanta Streets Alive
Banning cars from the streets and allowing pedestrians and bicyclists to roam free? Blasphemy, right?! Not so thanks to ATLANTA STREETS ALIVE, a daylong celebration of human-powered movement and enjoying the city streets with friends and strangers. Since first being held on Edgewood Avenue in 2010, themore...
Banning cars from the streets and allowing pedestrians and bicyclists to roam free? Blasphemy, right?! Not so thanks to ATLANTA STREETS ALIVE, a daylong celebration of human-powered movement and enjoying the city streets with friends and strangers. Since first being held on Edgewood Avenue in 2010, the blacktop party has touched Midtown, Downtown, Virginia-Highland, Inman Park, and, most recently, spread to West End in Southwest Atlanta. If only car-free boulevards were available every day of the year. www.atlantastreetsalive.com.
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Best gatherings of the masses: Race for a cause BOA Award Winner
Atlanta Mission's Race to End Homelessness
Best high school BOA Award Winner
Best jogging path BOA Award Winner
Best new thing about Atlanta BOA Award Winner
Best overrated thing about Atlanta BOA Award Winner
Best pack of scarf-wearing, ball-kicking hooligans BOA Award Winner
Terminus Legion
Best picnic spot BOA Award Winner
Best public skate park BOA Award Winner
Best rec league BOA Award Winner
Atlanta Rollergirls: Rec League
Best street BOA Award Winner
Edgewood Avenue
Best antique store BOA Award Winner
Kudzu Antique Market
Best back rub BOA Award Winner
Best barbershop BOA Award Winner
American Haircuts AND Mary Todd Hairdressing Co.
Best CDs BOA Award Winner
Best craft beer store BOA Award Winner
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